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Summary
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The City of Vaughan (the City) received a request under the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (the Act), for access to all records relating to the City’s official visits, communications, or actions, in regards to three identified properties, one of which belongs to the requester. It appears that the request arises as a result of a number of long-standing disputes between the property-owners which are reflected in various complaints to the City about noise and construction issues going back a number of years. Specifically, the requester sought access to the following:
[Requester’s own property address (#36)]
All visits to the property, correspondence and communications with owners, including all internal notes, notes to file, official requests/orders/communications/instructions/orders verbal and documented, inspections and notes, occupancy permit visits, notes, and documented conversations, from the start of the construction of [requester’s property address] (1994) to the current date.
[2nd property address (#26)]
All orders issued, including verbal and documented orders issued, and rescinded, orders complied with, letters from TRCA [the Toronto Regional Conservation Authority] in regards to the property extension and the sale of the OS1 zoned ravine land from the City to the resident, copy of the City permits for erecting the retaining wall and placing fill in the reclaimed land, on rear of the property (R1 zoned land abutting and OS1 zone this is a zoning requirement bylaw 289-89), copies of the engineering reports from the TRCA and City in regards to land sale from the City and the retaining wall and fill issues, a copy of the air conditioner noise compliance letter justifying the removal of the restriction on title, and a letter provided to the City of Vaughan from TRCA on or about June 20, 2001, indicating that they issued an order to [2nd property address] to reinstate the land and removed the fill for the purchased land, copies of visits from City bylaw and building standards and legal – from March 2000 to current date.
[3rd property address (#46)]
All orders issued, visits to site, and notes to file in regards to construction issues in particular complaints and bylaw enforcement requests from [requester’s property address (#36)] and actions taken by the City from March 2004 to September 2004.
The requester indicated in her letter that the records might be stored in the City’s Bylaw, Legal and Building Standards departments.
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